You may not be familiar with the village of Merriwick but, if you’ve driven by Kelley Farm in the past week, you’ve seen actors and volunteers — some of them military personnel from Joint Base Lewis-McChord — building it week by week. While Merriwick is very much a real place to its denizens, it only physically exists for three weekends a year during the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire. The Faire begins this Saturday and runs Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 18.
A public hearing for the city of Bonney Lake’s six-year Transportation Improvement Program attracted criticism from residents of the residential streets immediately east of the Justice & Municipal Center. The comments prompted the City Council, by a 5-2 vote, to table consideration of the plan until the Aug. 20 workshop.
All suspects in the police blotter are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
The nonfiction book by Laura Hillenbrand chronicles the story of the undersized and knobby-kneed thoroughbred race horse that beat expectations to defeat Triple Crown champion War Admiral in the 1938 “Match of the Century.”
Crews will be paving the intersection of Main Street East and Sky Island Drive. Thru traffic will not be allowed, and a detour will be set up on 192nd Avenue East and Veterans Memorial Drive East.
The administrator of the East Pierce Firefighters union Facebook account urged caution against unnecessary alarm, as dispatch had only received one report so far.
The 27-year-old driver of a speeding Saturn crashed in Buckley Tuesday, at the end of a high-speed chase with Bonney Lake police. He was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment of a minor injury sustained in the collision.
Warrior Dash attracted an estimated 8,000 runners, plus their family and friends, to Kelley Farm on Saturday, where athletes completed a 5K slogging through mud, crawling under barbed wire and jumping over fire among other obstacles.
“Kindie rock” group Recess Monkey will play Allan Yorke Park Tuesday, at 11 a.m., as part of the city’s Kids Club entertainment series.
All suspects in the police blotter are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
On Feb. 23, a vehicle driven by suspect John Dimas, 37, crossed the center line of Rhodes Lake Road East and struck a truck traveling in the opposite direction. Dimas allegedly showed several signs of being under the influence of alcohol.
Cascade Regional Blood Services has scheduled 13 mobile blood drives in Bonney Lake and Sumner in August, increasing its monthly visibility through summer events such as Get Fit Bonney Lake, Bonney Lake Days and the Classy Chassis Car Show.
Sumner Mayor David Enslow swore in Jeff Engel, a nine-year patrol sergeant, at the July 16 city council meeting.
